If you need to install an earlier Expansion Pack, it's best to completely reinstall the game. Installing everything is a slow process, but generally a better idea to do the incremental patches from all the Expansion Packs and install the Stuff Packs, before updating the game with the latest patch. The Sims 3 will not be able to find the CD, so a no-CD fix will have to be applied, such as the Ultimate Fix from Games4TheWorld. Disable if you experience problems with the game, but I haven't noticed any issues yet.)Įxport LD_PRELOAD="libpthread.so.0 libGL.so.1" (This is optional at the moment, but with current changes in the pipeline for wine, it's a good idea to be ready for the CSMT patches since The Sims 3 does use DirectX 9.0c. In PlayOnLinux, set the following as 'Command to exec before running the program' under Miscellaneous for 'The Sims 3'. Do not install the EA Download Manager or Origin for any of the expansions.Ĭreate a shortcut for C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3.exe that reads 'The Sims 3'Ĭreate a shortcut for C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\Sims3Launcher.exe that reads 'The Sims 3 - Launcher' exe file in this virtual drive' and run Sims3Setup.exe from the CD.
In PlayOnLinux, set 'Mouse warp override' to 'force' on the Miscellaneous tab.Ĭlick 'Run a. Video memory size: 1024 <- this is dependent on your own video card In PlayOnLinux, set the following under Display: Test the sound in the audio tab before exiting to reduce headaches later on There are Issues with pulseaudio that cause the music and intro video to play at high speed Still in winecfg, set the correct ALSA hardware device under Audio. Install dotnet35sp1 through winetricks, which also installs 2.0 and 3.0 with service packs and msxml3 In terminal: echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope Install vcrun2005 + sp1 through winetricks.įakeie6 is already part of Wine now and does not need to be installed separately. Set VideoDriver in winetricks to correct video card Also, the install script from PlayOnLinux has an issue where it breaks the Launcher and I didn't feel like going through it to try and figure out why.Ĭreate new 32-bit virtual drive called TheSims3 using wine 1.7.23 These instructions can be modified for those who know more about WINEPREFIX, but I wanted to keep it simple for casual users. For the record, I'm running Linux Mint 17, with Intel i5-4690, 3.13.0-24 of the kernel, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 with the nvidia driver 331.38, and using the latest, as of yesterday, wine version 1.7.23 through PlayOnLinux. After many days of searching and not finding anything any good instructions how to install 'The Sims 3' in Linux, this is the solution I came up with.
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